John in this chapter has an obsession with Lenina. He breaks into the rest house after he finds the door locked. He was terrified that Bernard and Lenina were gone. Once he realized that Lenina was there when he saw her initial on her green suit case joy “flared up like fire within him.” I thought this was pretty strange considering he has not know her for that long. He smelled her perfume, put scarf with the perfume around his neck, wiped her powder on his chest, shoulders, and bare arms whispering Lenina time. That is obsession and in my opinion is creepy! Those action might be acceptable if maybe they were dating but to me this is still very extreme. After fantasizing about her he finds her asleep stares at her and even thinks about unzipping
Good Bye Lenin! is the coming of age story of a young man as he struggles with his own psychological and moral growth while trying to protect his ill mother from the shock of learning that the Berlin wall has fallen. The movie was released in 2003, but is set from October 1989 to roughly a year later highlighting the time period just before the fall of the wall and the social, political, and economic changes that happened in Germany as a result of unification. Good Bye Lenin! is set in East Berlin, and was filmed mainly at the Karl-Marx-Allee in Eastern Berlin, and in an apartment building near Alexanderplatz. The film’s subject matter is portrayed through the juxtaposition of dramatic and sad moments against moments of comedy and satire which makes the genre classification of ‘tragicomedy’ the most appropriate. The story of Good Bye Lenin! focuses on the life and growth of a young man, Alex (played by Daniel Brühl) as he, his girlfriend Lara (Chulpan Khamatova), and his sister Ariane (Maria Simon) attempt to shield their mother (Katrin Saß) from learning that the East German state has dissolved. It is in this context that Alex must come to terms not only with his mother’s failing health, but also with his own identity in a rapidly changing space. In order to protect his mother Alex re-creates the GDR for her, but his portrayal does not exactly depict the ideals of the former socialist state. Instead, this ‘new’ GDR reflects Alex’s own personal beliefs and opinions of how he wants the state to be. Therefore, the parallel universe Alex creates in Good Bye Lenin! is an idealized representation of East Germany created in order to protect himself from the tragedy of losing his mother and to help him come to terms with a new world orde...
In the first couple of chapters, Lenina, a young woman, is introduced. When we first meet her, we learn that she has been seeing a guy, Henry, for the past 4 months. The reader can assume that this is normal, since the same happens in our everyday lives, but we soon discover that this is abnormal. In the new world, a regulation is set that men and woman cannot be in committed relationships, but are supposed to have sex with as many men or woman possible. The fact that she is not promiscuous enough can get her into trouble. “And you know how strongly the D. H. C. objects to anything intense or long-drawn… why, he’d be furious if he knew…” (Huxley, 41) As the story progresses, however, she becomes an example of new world regulations, admitting that she had sex with many men. “She was a popular girl and, at one time or another, had spent a night with almost all of them.” (Huxley, 57) Old world r...
There are many people who have lived through and within the Bolshevik Revolution, so there are a multitudinous variety of perspectives, thoughts, and insights about the revolution. The Bolshevik Revolution is known for many things; some say that the revolution helped women become free of control, and others proclaim that it did nothing but continue to hold women captive of their desired rights. The Bolshevik Revolution article states the side of a history professor Richard Stites, who argues yes the revolution benefited the women whilst the other side is declared no the revolution did no justice for women at all, which was argued by a Russian scholar, Lesly A. Rimmel. The opposing arguments both create an effective view on the revolution, and
Throughout the years leading up the 1918 Bolshevik revolution in Russia it could be seen that the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin was both pragmatic and idealistic in his approach to gaining and maintaining power. There were several different instances in which Lenin was pragmatic in his approach, these included his land reform policies and his imposition of the NEP (New Economic Policy). However there were also several points were Lenin was ideological and stuck to his Marxist views. This was evident through him bringing about peace and the end of Russian involvement in WWI. Add social policies
Turning Points in the Life of Vladimir Lenin In 1917 Lenin became the Russian dictator and is known nowadays as a Founder of the Communism movement. Many events in his life have turned Lenin's. attitude and changed his mind. In 1887, Lenin's brother was convicted of an attempted assassination.
that his real aim was not to be in power but to lead the world to a
Unfortunately, once that trigger is pulled painful and grueling memories of one's past begin to leak out and run amok. Due to the fact that, “Being treated with love and tenderness arouses a kind of poignant sadness that many people struggle to block out. People are afraid of being hurt in the same ways they were hurt as children” (Firestone). With regards to, John's past, he has suffered severely as a child; the amount of trauma John suffered as a child is on par with walking all the way to hell and back. For instance, when John was a young boy he witnessed his mother having sex as she moaned, “‘Come and lie down, Baby’....’Sing’....’Streptocock-Gee to Banbury-T’....’Bye Baby Banting, soon you’ll need decanting”’ (Huxley 134). As a consequence, of witnessing his mother in such an ignominious and humiliating act John begins to feel, “frightened; he hid his face against Linda’s body. Linda put her hand on him and he felt safer. In those other words he did not understand so well, she said to the man, ‘Not with John here’” (Huxley 134). At an early age, John had directly correlated pain and love into a single malicious category. As a result of that, association John built with regards to love, it is inevitable that those painful memories arise when Lenina states, “‘Put your arms round me, ….’Hug me till you drug me, honey’” (Huxley 214). Lenina’s alluring words are along the
... suddenly two tears rolled down her cheeks. Inaudibly, she spoke again; then, with a quick, impassioned gesture stretched out her arms towards the Savage, stepped forward."(227). She along with John are the only people to have cried in the world state,this leads us to believe that Lenina has some degree of feelings for John.The changes in the characters of Bernard, Lenina and John occur as a result of some sort of passion or need..
On March 3, 1918 Russia lost 1/3 of its fertile farm lands, 1/3 of its
Even the love of his life, Lenina, was going around town sleeping with everyone she sets her eyes on. John’s moral beliefs and
This is one of the main cultural differences between them, Lenina grew up in a society that is very sexually liberal. While for John, he saw his mom be beaten for sleeping with men thus he has been conditioned to view anything sexual as something negative. So, John represses his desires for Lenina because that is the culture he grew up in, “The bird was too dangerous. His hand dropped back. How beautiful she was! How beautiful!” (Huxley 155). This repression builds up inside of John overtime and is later let out in the last chapter as we can see him resorting to behaviour that is familiar to his culture (whipping
The article, “The Fight for Power and the ‘Fight’ for Sops” is written by Vladimir Lenin and originally appears in the Vperyod on June 14, 1906. The Vperyod is a newspaper published for several months beginning in 1905 by the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. The article appears on the Marxist Internet Archive website. The Marxist Internet Archive is a non-profit public library of Marxist writings. The Marxist Internet Archive website was accessed through Fordham University’s Sourcebooks pages, which establishes the credibility of the Marxist Internet Archive. The accessible article is not the original text, but a translated version with an unknown translator. It was subsequently published in 1965 by Progress Publishers of Moscow in Volume 11 of Lenin Collected Works. The article, as presented on the Marxist Internet Archive website, contains explanations of key terms and events, which add
In this analysis I will be identifying key points in Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s political pamphlet “What is to be Done?” in such a way as to identify the historical context, relation to political and ideological elements with current times, and showing how this document has enhanced my understanding of worldly events.
Rasputin took advantage of the political instability and upheavals of the era. He manipulated the Tsarina into allowing Rasputin a ministerial leap frog. ‘In the seventeen months of the `Tsarina's rule', from September 1915 to February 1917, Russia had four Prime Ministers, five Ministers of the Interior, three Foreign Ministers, three War Ministers, three Ministers of Transport and four Ministers of Agriculture.’ This caused anarchy in the government as competent and successful men were removed from power and no one was in office long enough to master responsibilities. The Tsarina and Rasputin had a self-destructive habit of picking terrible men to have jobs of high responsibility. For example, Boris Sturmer was widely regarded as an incompetent
Lenin's Contribution to Marxism up to 1905 and the Consequences Karl Marx was a German philosopher who wrote the Communist Manifesto, which encouraged workers to unite and seize power by revolution. His views became known as Marxism and influenced the thinking of socialists throughout Europe in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Marx believed that history was evolving in a series of stages towards a perfect state - Communism. These stages started with Feudalism - with the aristocrats controlling politics. Next would come Capitalism - with the bourgeoisie in control of politics.